John Lanchester Quotes
The economics of setting up a new restaurant are scary in good times and terrifying in bad ones.
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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I'm not good with catty girls. I'm too laid-back.
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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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It's a really scary thing, having your dreams come true and seeing everything you ever wanted happening, getting the attention for it and then not knowing how to handle it properly.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.
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At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?
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We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.
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I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.
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I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.
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When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
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I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
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Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.
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People evolve and grow, and life is fascinating and fun and tragic.
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What you think now about the cross of Christ, I cannot tell; but I can wish you nothing better than this - that you may be able to say with the apostle Paul, before you die or meet the Lord, 'God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.'
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There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.
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Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one's fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.
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The economics of setting up a new restaurant are scary in good times and terrifying in bad ones.
